#WeWillWaitKimJongWoon

Upon first glance this looks a lot like #WeWillWaitKimJongUn… but, thankfully we’re talking about Korean pop band Super Junior’s Kim Jong Woon. Confusing, but not to be confused.

Hundreds of fans turned up this week to watch Super Junior singer Yesung, or Kim Jong Woon, enlist in South Korean Army. This military service is mandatory for all South Korean men, although Yesung is just enlisting for a few months of training for now. His millions of fans tweeted to say that they will wait for him. Elvis would be proud.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Deniz Gezmiş, who passed away in prison at the age of 25 on May 6, 1972, was a Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and political activist in Turkey in the late 1960s. To many, Gezmiş was considered the Ché Guevara of Turkey. One of the founding members of the People’s Liberation Army of Turkey, his significance for the country is apparent forty-one years after his death on our global Twitter charts.

Happy Dia Del Albanil

Just when we thought we’d seen it all trend. On May 3, Latin American countries celebrated Dia Del Albanil, which is literally translated as Happy Mason Day. A day to celebrate builders and construction workers, this random holiday oddly trended enough to grant two hashtags, #diadelalbañil and #piroposdealbanil. The first meaning Happy Masons Day and the second, “compliments of bricklayer.”

The Queens Speech

Britain’s annual State Opening of Parliament began with Queen Elizabeth II’s speech to the House of Lords on Wednesday. A mix of grandeur royal traditions and hard politics, the event is quite the scene. The #QueensSpeech laid out her legislative programme for the year, and naturally had Britain talking. Her reforms of their immigration system and prison probation rose to the top of the government’s agenda along with their main priority: economic growth. According to her immigration policy, her government would like to “attract people who will contribute and deter those who will not.”

Sounds fair enough. Either way her half an hour speech has people breaking every sentence down meaning for meaning, and trending on UK’s Twittersphere.

Passing of a Peruvian Political Icon

Javier Diez Canseco Cisneros was a Peruvian politician and member of Congress representing the Socialist Party of Peru (PDD), of which he was a founding President. He passed away on May 4th and subsequently thousands of Peruvians came out for his funeral. According to sources, he was an iconic socialist who was idolized by many in the political sphere. His life was eulogized this week in Lima by leaders across the political spectrum.